Margot Elise Robbie, an Australian actress, Known for her on-screen magnetic aura and mind-blowing performance in a variety of roles, was born on 2nd July 1990 to Scottish parents in Dalby, Queensland, Australia. Her father, Doug Robbie, a former farm-owner and mother, Sarie Kessler, a physiotherapist, were divorced when Margot was a small child, and along with her two brothers and a sister, she was raised by their single mother, when they frequently spent time at her grandparents’ farm in Currumbin Valley in the Gold Coast hinterland of South East Queensland. At an early age, she was an energetic child, and was admitted to a Circus School by her mother, where she excelled in trapeze, in which she earned a certificate at age the age of eight. However, as she was interested in performing from a young age, she was enrolled at Somerset College, a private school in Mudgeeraba, where she studied drama, and graduated from the college in 2007. During that period, she tended a bar, cleaned houses, and worked at Subway, to support herself. Nevertheless, after completing her graduation, she appeared in a few commercials and two independent and insignificant thriller films, before moving to Melbourne to pursue her professional career in acting.

From 2008-2011, Margot appeared in several television series, which included the drama series City Homicide, two-episodes in the children's television series The Elephant Princess, followed by the soap opera Neighbours, which continued for three years, for which she was nominated for two Logie Awards. However, by that time, she was planning to pursue a career in Hollywood, and worked with a speech coach to learn an American accent. Soon after arriving in Los Angeles, she got the opportunity to play the major role of Laura Cameron, a flight attendant, on the short-lived ABC series Pan Am, and then made her big screen debut in a small part in the romantic comedy About Time (2013), depicting the story of a young man who tries to change his past with the hope of improving his future.

However, her breakthrough came in the same year, when she was cast as Naomi Lapaglia, the wife of Jordan Belford, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, in the black comedy The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), directed by the cinema legend Martin Scorsese. In fact, she was selected for the role, when in her audition, she improvised a slap on her co-star DiCaprio during a fight scene. The film was a box office success and was nominated for five Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards, while Margot was praised for her performance in the film, hailed as the best blonde bombshell discovery of Martin Scorsese since Cathy Moriarty in Raging Bull in 1980, nominated for a Breakthrough Performance MTV Movie Award, and also won the Empire Award for Best Newcomer.

In 2014, Margot Robbie, and her future husband, Tom Ackerley, along with their respective longtime friends Sophia Kerr and Josey McNamara, started their production company, LuckyChap Entertainment, with the aim to produce more female-driven projects. In the same year, she also appeared as Celine Joseph, a woman falling for a German soldier during the German occupation of France, in the World War II romantic-drama film Suite Française (2014), directed by Roger Craig Zobel.

In the next year, Margot appeared in three films, which include the romantic comedy-drama film Focus (2015), in which she appeared as Jes Barrett, an inexperienced grafter, learning the tricks of the trade from Nicky Spurgeon, played by Will Smith. Although reviews of the film were generally mixed, Robbie's performance in her role was praised, and she was nominated for the Rising Star Award at the British Academy Film Awards. In the same year, she appeared in her first leading role of Ann Burden, the seemingly sole survivor of a recent nuclear apocalypse in the post-apocalyptic science fiction film Z for Zachariah(2015), directed by Craig Zobel. In preparation for the film, Robbie dyed her hair brown and learned to speak in the Appalachian accent, and her performance was highly acclaimed by the critics, asserting that her performance established her as one of the very best actresses in her age range. However, in that year she probably gained the most notice for her guest appearance as herself in the comedy-drama The Big Shot (2015), in which she explained subprime loans while taking a bubble bath.

In 2016, Margot Robbie played the role of Tanya Vanderpoel, a British TV reporter, in Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016), set during the Afghanistan War, which received mixed reviews from critics, and also appeared as Jane Porter in The Legend of Tarzan (2016), which although grossed $356.7 million worldwide against a budget of $180 million, also received mixed reviews from critics. But her most notable role in that year, perhaps the film for which she is perhaps most widely known, was the role of Harley Quinn, the psychotic girlfriend of the Joker, played by Jared Joseph Leto, in the super-villain movie Suicide Squad (2016). For the preparation of the role, she had to maintain a rigid schedule, consisting of gymnastics, boxing, aerial acrobatics training, as well as learning to hold her breath underwater for five minutes. In the film, which was a commercial success, Margot performed the majority of her own stunts, without using a body double, and her performance was considered its prime asset. She was depicted by the Time magazine as a criminally appealing actress, likable in just about every way. For her stunning performance in the role, she was awarded the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress in an Action Movie, and also won the Favourite Action Movie Actress at the annual People’s Choice Awards.

Next year, Margot Robbie appeared in Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017), a biographical drama about the life of Alan Alexander Milne, the creator of the teddy bear, Winnie-the-Pooh, playing the role of Daphne Milne, wife of Alexander Milne. However, the film received modest reviews and was a commercial failure. Nevertheless, her final release of the year and LuckyChap Entertainment's first release I, Tonya (2017), in which she played the role of the ill-fated Olympic ice-skating star Tonya Harding, was a grand success. To make herself properly prepared for the role, Robbie met with Harding, watched carefully the old footage of her performance and her old interviews, worked with a voice coach to speak in her Pacific Northwest accent, and also underwent several months of rigorous training of skating. The film, premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, was critically acclaimed, while Margot was profusely praised for her performance in the film and was nominated for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award for Best Actress, apart from winning a Critic’s Choice Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Robbie had initially turned down the role of Queen Elizabeth I in the historical drama film Mary Queen of Scots (2018), directed by Josie Rourke, for being terrified of not to live up to the expectation of portraying the historical Queen. However, she was praised by the critics for her portrayal of the role, and she was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress, for her performance in the film. Interestingly, she was the only choice of the famous American filmmaker Quentin Jerome Tarantino to portray the role of the late actress Sharon Tate in his period film Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (2019), also starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt. The film was premiered at the Cannes Film Festival to critical acclaim, and was a commercial success. In the same year, she also starred as Kayla Pospisil, an aspiring Fox News star in Bombshell (2019), along with Charlize Theron and Nicole Mary Kidman, about the sexual harassment of the female personnel at the news network. The film was appreciated by the critics, and for her performance in the film, Margot Robbie received an Academy, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA Award in the Best Supporting Actress category, for her performance in the film.

After that, Robbie continued her role of Harley Quinn in Birds of Prey (2020), and also in The Suicide Squad (2021), both of which earned generally favourable reviews. Her subsequent films include Babylon (2022), set in Hollywood during the 1920s, co-starring Brad Pitt, a single scene in the ensemble science fiction comedy film Asteroid City (2023), and the fantasy comedy Barbie (2023), for which she again received a BAFTA and a Golden Globe nomination for Best Leading Actress.

In her personal life, Margot Robbie met British assistant director Tom Ackerley in 2013, on the set of Suite Française, and became involved in a romantic relationship. They married in a private wedding ceremony in December 2016, in Byron Bay, Australia, and the couple resides in Venice Beach, California.